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No jobs data: December's employment report, which was...

January 05, 1996

No jobs data: December's employment report, which was supposed to have been released Friday, has been delayed indefinitely, adding another insightful bit of economic data to the list of numbers that investors and Federal Reserve policymakers won't see because of the 21-day shutdown of federal government agencies. The Labor Department report is the latest economic indicator to be postponed by the shutdown. Most analysts had expected the economy's national payroll to gain at least 100,000 jobs.